Founder of French breast implant company goes on trial

Reporters wait outside the courthouse on April 16, 2013 at the Parc Chanot in Marseille, southern France.

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Jean Claude Mas and four others are on trial in France over controversial breast implants

Mas, who founded Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, is accused of causing involuntary injury

PIP implants were banned in 2010, and the company went bankrupt later that year

Mas has consistently denied any wrongdoing and says his products were safe

The founder of a French company that made controversial breast implants has gone on trial, accused of fraud and causing involuntary injury.

Proceedings against Jean Claude Mas, who founded Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, and four others connected to the company continued Thursday, a day after the trial opened in Marseille.

A woman claimant in the case told CNN affiliate BFM-TV that she hoped to be able to speak during the trial "to make him (Mas) understand all he's made us suffer, everything we've felt in the past three years because of him."

Mas has consistently denied any wrongdoing, insisting that his products were perfectly safe.